Al Ahly (handball)

This article is about the handball club. For the football club and main article about Al Ahly, see Al Ahly SC.

Al Ahly Handball Club (Arabic: النادي الاهلي لكرة اليد) is one of Al Ahly Sporting Club's sections that represent the club in Egypt as well as in international handball competitions. Al Ahly's Handball team was founded in 1959. The Al Ahly handball team has participated in the Egyptian Handball League since the beginning in 1960s until the present. The Championship was played under the name of the Republic League. The first championship win for the Al Ahly team in the Egyptian Handball League was in 1968 and 1969. The Al Ahly Handball Club has won the most titles in the league, 26 of which were gold medals. It participated in 6 different championships every season: the Egyptian Handball League, the Egypt cup, the Egyptian Handball Federation, the African Handball Champions League, the African Handball Cup Winners' Cup, and the African Handball Super Cup.

Al Ahly SC Handball
Full name	Al Ahly SC
Short name	A.S.C
Founded	1959
Arena	Al Ahly Sports Hall
Capacity	2,500
President	Mahmoud El Khatib
Head coach	Stefan Madsen
Captain	Islam Hassan
League	Egyptian Handball League
2024–25	Champion
Home Away
Website Official site

Al Ahly had the best record in the IHF Super Globe when it achieved a silver medal in 2007. For many years, Al Ahly preferred to participate in Arab tournaments instead of African tournaments, causing Al Ahly to remain at the top of Arab handball clubs with 8 total trophies. Al Ahly was the first team to qualify to the African Super Cup in 1994, but it withdrew its participation in Arab Championships.

Al Ahly has had many successful generations of handball, but during the 90s they have had the most success. During this time, they won 6 Egyptian Leagues, 2 Egypt Cups, 2 African Handball Champion Leagues, and 6 Arab Championships, not including the great efforts with the Egypt men's national handball team.

Al Ahly player Gohar Nabil was nominated as the Best Handball Player in the World in 1998 and 2000. Further, Sameh Abdel Warth was chosen at the Handball World Team in 1997.

Men's team honours

National titles

• Egyptian Handball League 26 (Record)
  • Champions: 1968–69,^[1] 1973–74,^[2] 1977–78,^[3] 1981–82,^[4] 1983–84,^[5] 1985–86,^[6][7][8] 1991–92,^[9] 1992–93,^[10] 1993–94, 1996–97,^[11] 1997–98,^[12] 1999–00,^[13] 2001–02,^[14][15] 2002–03,^[16] 2003–04,^[17] 2005–06,^[18] 2007–08,^[19] 2012–13,^[20] 2013–14,^[21][22] 2014–15,^[23][24] 2016–17,^[25][26] 2017–18,^[27][28][29] 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25.
• Egypt Handball Cup 11
  • Champions: 1995–96,^[30] 1997–98,^[31] 1999–00,^[32] 2004–05, 2008–09,^[33] 2013–14,^[34] 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022-23,^[35] 2024-25^[36]
• Egyptian Handball Super Cup 2
  • Champions: 2023,^[37]2025
• Egyptian Excellence Cup (Defunct)
  • Champions: 2003
• Egyptian Federation Handball Cup 3 (Record)
  • Champions: 2015,"بالصور.. الأهلى يتوج بلقب كأس اتحاد اليد". 2016,^[38]2017^[39][40]
• 25 January Cup 1: (Played instead of cancelled league due to shortage time after 25 January Revolution and the champion qualify to African Handball Champions League^[41][42])
  • Champions: 2011

International titles

• IHF Super Globe
  • Runners-up: 2007 (Best African team record in IHF Super Globe)^[43][44]
  • Third place: 2024
• African Handball Champions League 7
  • Champions: 1985,^[45] 1993,^[46][47] 1994,^[48] 2012,^[49] 2016,^[50][51] 2023, 2024
  • Runners-up: 2013, 2014, 2018
• African Handball Cup Winners' Cup 4
  • Champions: 2013,^[52] 2017,^[53] 2018,^[54] 2021^[55]
  • Runners-up: 1985, 2001, 2014, 2015, 2019
• African Handball Super Cup 4
  • Champions: 2017,^[56] 2022,^[57] 2023,^[58][59] 2024
  • Runners-up: 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021

Regional titles

• Arab Handball Championship of Champions 5
  • Champions: 1993,^[60] 1994,^[61] 1995,^[62] 1998,^[63][64] 2010^[65][66]
  • Runners-up: 1986, 1999
• Arab Handball Championship of Winners' Cup 3 (Record Shared)
  • Champions: 1996,^[67][68] 1997,^[69] 2011^[70][71]
  • Runners-up: none

Squad

Squad for the 2022–2023 season^[72]

Goalkeepers 01 Abdelrahman Mohamed 16 Abdelrahman Taha 97 Mohammed Ibrahim Right Wingers 19 Omar Sami 98 Omar Castilo Left Wingers 11 Abdel Aziz Ehab 79 Ahmed Hesham 04 Islam Rady Line players 24 Ibrahim El-Masry 72 Yasser Seif Eldin 80 Ahmed Adel 44 Omar Sherif

Left Backs 07 Mostafa Khalil 08 Shehab Abdallah 10 Abdelrahman Abdou Central Backs 13 Seif Hany 17 Ahmed Khairy Right Backs 05 Mohsen Ramadan 48 Mohab Saeed 55 Mohamed Lashin

Transfers

• Transfers for the 2022–23 season

Joining Raul Nantes From CS Dinamo București Ahmed Khairy From CS Dinamo București Shehab Abdallah From Tala'ea El Gaish SC Mohammed Ibrahim From KH Kopřivnice

Leaving Oussama Jaziri to ?? Mahmoud Noaman to ?? Omar Haggag to ??

Transfers for the 2020–21 season
Joining Mostafa Khalil From Zamalek SC Omar Haggag From Molayha Leaving Mohamed El-Tayar to DHfK Leipzig Mamdouh Taha to ?? Baher Elbadrawy to ?? Mohamed Gamal to Sporting Omar Yassin to ??

Transfers for the 2019–20 season

Joining Mohsen Ramadan From Heliopolis Sporting Club Oussama Jaziri From Espérance Sportive Mahmoud Noaman From Smouha SC Omar Yassin From Al Sadd SC Ahmed Sessa From Tala'ea El Gaish SC Omar Sami From Tala'ea El Gaish SC Leaving Ahmed Khairey to CSA Steaua București Fayez Naeem to Sharjah FC Skander Zaïdi to Espérance Sportive de Tunis Youssef Maaraf to Espérance Sportive de Tunis Mahmoud Assem Hammad to Al Ahly Bank SC Abdelrahman Homayed to Wisła Płock loan Joining Mohamed Gamal from ElGazira SC[73] Baher El Badrawy From Tala'ea El Gaish SC[74] Ahmed Adel From Tala'ea El Gaish SC[75] Abdel Aziz Ehab From Smouha SC Skander Zaïdi From Club Africain Leaving Hady Refaat to Heliopolis Sporting Club Mostafa Khalil to Zamalek SC Ahmed Hossam to Zamalek SC Baggio to Al Ahly Bank SC Omar Elwakeel to Zamalek SC Mohamed Ibrahim to Alexandria Sporting Club Omar Hagag to mulaiha fc Ahmed Abd ElRahman Smouha SC Hady Hamido to El maadi fc

Transfers for the 2018–19 season
Joining Ahmed Khairey from ElGazira SC[76] Youssef Maaraf From El Makarem de Mahdia[77] Leaving Mahmoud Hassaballa to Al Ahli SC (Doha) Mohamed Abd Elwarth to Al Wahda FC Mohamed Amer Boody to Smouha SC ِAbd Alhamid Elsayed to Smouha SC ElSayed Mohamed to Smouha SC Mohamed Aktham to ?? Ahmed Hesham to Smouha SC Aktham ElKhamisi to Nordsjælland Håndbold[78][79]

Transfers for the 2017–18 season
Joining Mahmoud Hassaballa from El-Sadd (Qatar) Omar Haggag from ElShaab UAE Mohamed Aktham (back from loan) Leaving karem El saeed Retire Baher ElBadrwey to ElGeish Mostafa Bisher Khaleej FC Mohamed Ali to Zamalek SC Khaled Essam to Ferencvárosi TC

Transfers for the 2016–17 season
Joining Islam Hassan Omar Yassin Hady Refaat Omar El Qualuobby (back from loan) Leaving Mohamed Aktham Mohamed Abu Alatta Mohamed Ramadan Hitlr

Technical and managerial staff

Name	Role	Nationality
Stefan Madsen	Head coach	Danish
Ahmed Salem	Assistant coach	Egyptian
Mohamed Ibrahim	Assistant coach	Egyptian
Yasser Labib	Team Manager	Egyptian
Mostafa naguib	Physiotherapist	Egyptian
Moahmed Elattar	Masseur	Egyptian
Venio Losert	Goalkeepers' Trainer	Croatian

Recent titles

Egyptian league title

≥ Final round matches Round Team Home  Away  1 & 6 Sporting 26–28 36–25 2 & 7 Smouha SC 27–21 32–22 3 & 8 Heliopolis SC 26–21 34–26 4 & 9 El Gaish 29–29(ET) 5–4(Pen) 27–24 5 & 10 Zamalek SC 21–18 17–18

≥ Final League Ranking RNK Team PLD W-L (GF) (GA) (C) (FRP) (PRP) (Tpts) 1st Al Ahly SC 10 8-2 280 236 +44 26 3 29 2nd Zamalek SC 10 8-2 278 267 +11 26 3 29 3rd El Gaish 10 6-4 309 277 +23 20 2 22 4th Sporting 10 5-5 272 268 +4 20 1 21 5th Smouha SC 10 3-7 260 282 -22 16 1 17 6th Heliopolis SC 10 1-9 267 336 -69 12 2 14

After the equal points of Al Ahly SC and Zamalek SC they played a tiebreak game when Al Ahly won 27–26, and were then announced as the Champion of Egyptian Handball league^[80]

The road to 2016 African Handball Champions League

# Round Team Home 1 Group stage (Group A) Police HBC 43–20 2 AS Caïman 34-23 3 Minuh Yaoundé 34–23 4 Espérance de Tunis 29-24 5 Quarter Final JS Kinshasa 31-20 6 Semifinal Widad Smara 31-23 7 Final Espérance de Tunis 26-23

The road to 2018 African Handball Cup Winners' Cup # Round Team Home 1 Group stage (Group D) AS Minuh 28–15 2 Al-Ittihad 28-20 3 Quarter Final Red Star 41-17 4 Semifinal Widad Smara 37-19 7 Final Al-Ittihad 25-12

Men's African competition records

Men's African Club Competitions Year African Handball Champions League African Handball Cup Winners' Cup African Handball Super Cup 1979 Did not enter " started in 1985 Started in 1994 1980 Did not enter 1981 Did not enter 1982 Did not enter 1983 Did not enter 1984 Did not enter 1985 Winner 1986 Semi-finals Runner-up 1987 Did not enter Did not enter 1988 Did not enter Did not enter 1989 Did not enter Quarter-finals 1990 Did not qualify" Did not enter 1991 Did not enter Did not enter 1992 Did not enter Did not enter 1993 Winner Did not enter 1994 Winner Did not enter Withdrew after qualifying 1995 Did not enter Did not enter Withdrew after qualifying 1996 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 1997 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 1998 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 1999 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 2000 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 2001 Did not enter Runner-up Did not qualify 2002 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 2003 Semi-finals Did not enter Did not qualify 2004 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 2005 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 2006 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 2007 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 2008 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 2009 Did not enter Did not enter Did not qualify 2010 Did not enter Quarter-finals Did not qualify 2011 Quarter-finals Did not enter Did not qualify 2012 Winner Did not enter Did not qualify 2013 Runner-up Winner Runner-up 2014 Runner-up Runner-up Runner-up 2015 Quarter-finals Runner-up Did not qualify 2016 winner Did not enter Did not qualify 2017 Semi-finals winner winner 2018 Runner-up winner Runner-up 2019 Did not qualify Runner up Runner-up 2021 Canceled winner Runner up 2022 Semi-finals Runner up winner 2023 TBD Runner up winner

The "Glory Season"

In the 2016/2017 season, Al Ahly HB had one of its best seasons when the team won five championships from six competitions competed.

• In the first months of the season, specifically in October 2017, Al Ahly won the 2016 African Handball Champions League in Burkina Faso after beat Espérance de Tunis in the final 26–23 achieving the fifth title in this tournament and the first title of this season.
• In the beginning of 2018 in January specifically Al Ahly crowned the Egyptian Federation Handball Cup after beat Al Gazira in the final and thus Al Ahly added his second title in this season
• In the same month Al Ahly crowned a friendly championship of Alshaab club after the victory over the Algerian GS Pétroliers in the final 28–21,^[81] but this friendly championship is not calculated among the five trophies
• In April 2018 the team won three trophies:
  • On April 12, in Agadir, Morocco Al Ahly won the 2017 African Handball Super Cup after beat Zamalek SC 29–23, this was the third title of Al Ahly in the season
  • On April 22, Al Ahly won the 2017 African Handball Cup Winners' Cup after beat AS Hammamet in the final 31–22, this was the fourth title of this season
  • On April 30, Al Ahly won the Egyptian Handball League after beating Sporting SC in the 24th round, Al Ahly had 24 wins in row (without any loss or a draw), this was the fifth title in this great season.

Head coaches

This is a list of the senior team's head coaches in the recent years.

2024–present	Stefan Madsen
10/2022–2024	David Davis[82]
4-10/2022	Daniel Gordo [de][83]
2021–2022	Tarek Mahrous
2020	Ola Lindgren
2019	Niko Markovič
2016- 2018	Assem Hammad
2014-2016	Tarik Mahrous
2012-2014	Assem Hammad
2010-2012	Mamdouh Seleman
2008-2010	Mohamed Abd moaty
2007-2008	Zoran Kurteš
2004-2007	Ashraf Shokry
2000-2004	Assem El Saadaney
1998-2000	Assem Hammad
1993-1998	Gamal Shams
1991-1993	Mohamed Abd moaty
1990-1991	Khaled Khataab
1989-1990	Gamal Shams
1989	Mosaad Abbas
1985-1987	Edward Strząbała [pl]
1984-1985	Gamal Shams
1982-1984	Talaat Sheta
	Fawzy fadaaly
	Abdelaziz Tawfik
	ِKhalil Zaki
	Hassan Moustafa
	Kamal Abdel Hameed
	Mohammed Wahdan

Al Ahly in Super Globe Championship

→ Al Ahly participate 4 times in IHF Super Globe. Al Ahly Hosted the IHF Super Globe 2007 In Al ahly hall in Gezira

2007 IHF Super Globe

This competition was held in league format, and 5 teams took part. Al Ahly Fixtures was:

NO	Team 1	Result	Team 2
1	Ahly SC	35-13	Al-Qadsiya
2	Ahly SC	26-23	Metodista SBC
3	Ahly SC	28-20	Mouloudia MCA
4	Ahly SC	28-29	Ciudad Real

Final Ranking:

	Ciudad Real
	Al Ahly SC
	Mouloudia MCA
4	Metodista SBC
5	Al-Qadsiya

2015 IHF Super Globe

This competition was held in Knock out format starting form Quarter Finals, and 8 teams participated in this competition. Al Ahly Fixtures was:

NO	Team 1	Result	Team 2
Quarter Final	Ahly SC	16-20	FC Barcelona Handbol
5–8th place	Ahly SC	20-17	Club Africain
5-6th place	Ahly SC	28-24	HC Taubaté

• Final ranking

	Füchse Berlin
	MKB Veszprém
	FC Barcelona
4	Sydney University
5	Al Ahly
6	HC Taubaté
7	Club Africain
8	Al Sadd

2017 IHF Super Globe

Al Ahly Qualified to super globe after beat Zamalek SC in the 2017 African Handball Super Cup but later withdraw due to Political problems with Host Country Qatar . and Espérance participate instead of Al Ahly sc ^[84][85]

2022 IHF Men's Super Globe

Al Ahly Qualified to super globe after beat Zamalek SC in the 2022 African Handball Super Cup 32–31 The draw was held on 29 September 2022.^[86] and put Al Ahly beside both of SL Benfica and Mudhar Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Al Ahly	2	2	0	0	65	58	+7	4	Semifinals
2	SL Benfica	2	1	0	1	67	56	+11	2	5–8th place semifinals
3	Mudhar	2	0	0	2	57	75	−18	0	9–12th place semifinals

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

18 October 2022 19:45	Al Ahly	36–30	Mudhar	Dammam Sports Hall, Dammam Attendance: 3,275 Referees: Madsen, García, Lee
	Dahroug 9	(18–17)	Bannour 10
	5× 1×	Report	1× 4×

---

20 October 2022 16:45	Al Ahly	29–28	SL Benfica	Dammam Sports Hall, Dammam Attendance: 2,100 Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Khaled Hassan 8	(12–13)	Đorđić 9
	5×	Report	1× 10× 1×

Championship bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	22 October
	SC Magdeburg	36
					23 October
	Al Ahly	28
					SC Magdeburg (ET)	41
	22 October
					Barcelona	39
	Łomża Industria Kielce	28
	Barcelona	39
					Third place
					23 October
					Al Ahly	26
					Łomża Industria Kielce	35

Semifinals

22 October 2022 18:00	SC Magdeburg	36–28	Al Ahly	Dammam Sports Hall, Dammam Attendance: 3,000 Referees: Lah, Sok (SLO)
	Magnússon 8	(18–17)	Mahmoud 7
	2× 2×	Report	2× 1×

---

Third place game

23 October 2022 18:00	Al Ahly	26–35	Łomża Industria Kielce	Dammam Sports Hall, Dammam Attendance: 1,800 Referees: Schulze, Tönnies (GER)
	Mesilhy 5	(13–16)	Tournat 8
	1×	Report	4×

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	SC Magdeburg
	Barcelona
	Łomża Industria Kielce
4	Al Ahly
5	Espérance de Tunis
6	Khaleej
7	SL Benfica
8	Handebol Taubaté
9	Al Kuwait
10	Mudhar
11	Sydney University
12	Club Ministros

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit supplier	Shirt sponsors
2006-2009	Puma	Vodafone / Juhayna / Chevrolet / Coca-Cola
2009-2011	Adidas
2011-2015		Etisalat[87] / Juhayna / Chevrolet
2015-2017	Diadora	Vodafone[88] / Juhayna[89] / Huawei[90] / Shell Helix[91] / Egyptians Steel [ar] / Domino's Pizza
2017-2018	Hummel
2018-2019		Vodafone / LAVA / TORNADO
2019-2020	Kelme	WE / TIGER / GLC Paints / Shell Helix

Notable players

• Hassan Moustafa
• Gamal Shams
• Mohamed El Alfey
• Yasser Labib
• Assem El Saadney
• Khaled El Awady
• Sameh Abdel Waress
• Ashraf Mabrouk Awaad
• Hazem Awaad
• Gohar Nabil
• Hany El-Fakharany
• Ashraf Shokrey
• Atef Abdelrahman
• Mahmoud Ashour
• Saber Heussin
• Ahmed Salem
• Mamdouh Seleman
• Tarek El Dorey
• Karim El Saaeed (N)
• Karim El Din Shoukry (N)
• Ayman El Alfey
• Eslam Issa

Club presidents

No	Period	Name	From	To
1	1st	Mitchel Ince	1907	1908
2	1st	Aziz Ezzat Pacha	1908	1916
3	1st	Abdelkhaleq Tharwat Pacha	1916	1924
4	1st	Gaafar Waly Pacha	1924	1940
5	1st	Mohamed Taher Pacha	1940	1941
6	2nd	Gaafar Waly Pacha	1941	1944
7	1st	Ahmed Hasanein Pacha	1944	1946
8	1st	Ahmed Aboud Pacha	1946	1961
9	1st	Salah Desouky Sheshtawy	1961	1965
10	1st	Abdelmohsen Kamel Mortagy	1965	1967
11	1st	Ibrahim El Wakil	1967	1972
12	2nd	Abdelmohsen Kamel Mortagy	1972	1980
13	1st	Saleh Selim	1980	1988
14	1st	Mohamed Abdou Saleh El Wahsh	1988	1992
15	2nd	Saleh Selim	1992	2002
16	1st	Hassan Hamdy	2002	2014
17	1st	Mahmoud Taher	2014	2017
18	1st	Mahmoud El Khatib	2017	Present

See also

• Al Ahly FC
• Al Ahly FC Women
• Al Ahly (volleyball)
• Al Ahly Women's Volleyball
• Al Ahly (basketball)
• Al Ahly Women's Basketball
• Al Ahly Women's Handball
• Al Ahly (table tennis)
• Al Ahly (water polo)
• Port Said Stadium riot
• Al-Ahly TV